[Rockhounds] Off US coast, Tangier Island disappearing under water

[Paul]

Off US coast, Tangier Island disappearing under water
June 2, 2017 by Eleonore Sens
https://phys.org/news/2017-06-coast-tangier-island.html

"Erosion is threatening the existence of Tangier Island,
Virginia, which has already lost two-thirds of its landmass
since 1850"

Islanders in Chesapeake Bay face exile from rising seas
December 10, 2015 by Steve Szkotak
https://phys.org/news/2015-12-islanders-chesapeake-bay-exile-seas.html

Science Summary—Sea-Level Rise and Chesapeake Bay
by the United States Geological Survey
https://chesapeake.usgs.gov/sciencesummary-sealevelrise.html

It states:

"Chesapeake Bay tide-gage records and paleo-sea-level
records from tidal marshes and the bay’s main stem,
determined from sediment cores collected from 1995
to 2006 (fig. 1), show that rates of sea-level rise in
Chesapeake Bay range from about 3.2 to 4.7 mm/yr
depending on the location and period of record for
each tide gage."

Also, look at “Vanished Chesapeake Islands”
by Annalise Kenney and Jeffrey Brainard at 
http://www.chesapeakequarterly.net/sealevel/main8/

Chesapeake Bay Land Subsidence and Sea Level Change
An Evaluation of Past and Present Trends and Future Outlook
US Army corps of Engineers, Virginia Institute of
Marine Science Special Report No. 425
http://www.vims.edu/GreyLit/VIMS/sramsoe425.pdf

Erwin, R.M., Brinker, D.F., Watts, B.D., Costanzo, G.R.
and Morton, D.D., 2011. Islands at bay: rising seas, eroding
islands, and waterbird habitat loss in Chesapeake Bay
(USA). Journal of Coastal Conservation, 15(1), pp.51-60.
https://chesapeake.usgs.gov/pdfs/ErwinETAL-JCoastalCons-2010.pdf

Schulte, D.M., Dridge, K.M. and Hudgins, M.H., 2015.
Climate Change and the Evolution and Fate of the
Tangier Islands of Chesapeake Bay, USA. Scientific reports, 5.
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/f4ed/b26c52638601f4fd79c818428873612c234a.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4675185/

Hershner, C. and Mitchell, M., Rising Tides, Sinking Coast.
http://www.via.vt.edu/winter13/Rising-Tides-Sinking-Coast.pdf

Yours,


Paul H.